Surprisingly, Linux users as well as Windows users who also use
Linux or another Unix, appear to be the most common switchers.
While Tim warns readers in his article to "take all ... with a
grain of salt," he nevertheless presents some interesting stories
and discovers a few surprises among this new group of adopters.Mac OS X Switcher Stories

We also have a look at why you should always use table aliases in
SQL, by Jonathan Gennick, O'Reilly editor and coauthor of
"Transact-SQL Cookbook".Which Table, Which Column?

And if you're interested in learning how to use the pax archiver,
this article shows you how to create both cpio and tar archives
with pax.
Archiving with Pax

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CASE Tools: Large System Development
Computer-Aided Software Engineering is a term that can generally
be applied to any system or collection of tools that helps automate
the software-design and development process. David HM Spector
discusses what is available for Linux.

The Sharp Zaurus -- A Lovely Little Computer
Simson Garfinkel reviews Sharp's new Zaurus SL-5500 palmtop
computer. With its GNU/Linux-based operating system and
applications, the Zaurus is turning heads in the open source
community.